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29 July 2010
NASA Decision Afoot in Congress?
The US House of Representatives are preparing to vote on H.R. 5781, their version of NASA's $19 billion budget authorization for fiscal year 2011, and several groups are calling for a "no" vote, or at the very least, a delay in the vote, currently scheduled for Friday, July 30. The House version would cut much [...]
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26 July 2010
Is the Moon Really a 'Been There Done That' World?
If there's only one thing we've learned from all the highly successful recent Moon missions – the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, LCROSS, Chandrayaan-1 and Kaguya — it's that the Moon is perplexingly different from our perceptions of the past 40 years. The discovery of water and volatiles across the surface and in the permanently shadowed regions [...]
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22 July 2010
Europa Analog Deep-Sea Vents Discovered in the Caribbean
White sand, blue water, sunny skies, pina coladas. When you think of “extreme environments” I doubt the Caribbean is high on your list. But a team of scientists from Woods Hole Oceanographic institute and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, exploring the 68-mile-long Mid-Cayman rise deep beneath the surface of the Caribbean, have discovered the deepest known [...]
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15 July 2010
Senate's New NASA Plan: Heavy Lift, Extra Shuttle Mission, Less Commericial and Tech Development
The U.S. Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation today unanimously approved legislation that would add a shuttle mission and jump start work on a heavy-lift rocket next year. The NASA Reauthorization Act effectively cancels the Constellation program, but directs NASA to begin work immediately on a new heavy-lift vehicle to be ready by 2016, along with [...]
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14 July 2010
NASA Rescues Sea Turtles Endangered by Oil Spill
Kennedy Space Center sits right smack dab in the middle of Merritt Island Wildlife refuge, and many at KSC are proud that NASA's technology can work in concert with nature. So it's not surprising that the space agency is helping thousands of baby sea turtles, endangered by the oil spill on northern Gulf of Mexico [...]
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13 July 2010
Your Chance to Weigh in on NASA's Future Destinations
Where do you think NASA's next destination should be in space? Asteroid? The Moon? Mars? The Planetary Society is hosting an interactive Ustream chat where you can put in your 2 cents. "Tell us where you want to go in space!" said Bill Nye (the Science Guy) who will soon become the Planetary Society's new [...]
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07 July 2010
For the Gamers Out There: Moonbase Alpha
Since I can't even master Mario Kart, I'll probably stay clear of NASA's new online game, Moonbase Alpha, out of fear of crashing the Moon rovers and destroying the lunar colony. But for those of your that enjoy video games, NASA has teamed up with Virtual Heroes to create this new game. Here's the blurb: [...]
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21 June 2010
John Glenn: Keep the Space Shuttles Flying
US spaceflight legend John Glenn has weighed in on the current human spaceflight debate, releasing an 8-page paper outlining his feelings and a potential plan to allow US astronauts to keep launching on US vehicles. While Glenn supports President Barack Obama's plan to extend operations of the International Space Station and to forego returning to [...]
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09 June 2010
Needed: Plutonium-238
Sometimes people ask me what they, as a regular citizen can do to help NASA. Emily Lakdawalla at the Planetary Society Blog posted this today, and this is definitely something to write to members of Congress about. NASA is running out of plutonium-238, which is used to power deep space probes, but [...]
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08 June 2010
Early NASA Vacuum Chamber Test Gone Wrong
When I first started watching this video, I thought it might be a mockumentary (does a vacuum chamber really have that many doors??) but apparently, this event really happened. In 1966, Jim, Le Blanc, a NASA spacesuit technician was inside vacuum chamber at the Manned Spaceflight Center (now Johnson Space Center in Houston) [...]
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07 June 2010
Send Your Face to Space On Final Two Shuttle Missions
If NASA offered you a ride on one of the final two scheduled space shuttle missions, you'd go, right? I know I would, so that's why I immediately signed up for NASA's newest public participation campaign, "Send Your Face to Space." If I can't go, at least my face is heading up to [...]
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28 May 2010
The Last Train to KSC: Final Set of Solid Rocket Boosters Arrive
Another end-of-an-era event heralding the conclusion of the space shuttle program: the final set of space shuttle solid rocket booster segments arrived at the Kennedy Space Center on Thursday, May 27, 2010. The segments were carried on railway cars from the ATK factory in Utah where the boosters are built. The [...]
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27 May 2010
Japan Shoots for Robotic Moon Base by 2020
These ARE the droids we've been looking for. The Japanese space agency, JAXA, has plans to build a base on the Moon by 2020. Not for humans, but for robots, and built by robots, too. A panel authorized by Japan's prime minister has drawn up preliminary plans of how humanoid and rover [...]
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25 May 2010
First Orion Capsule forming rapidly
The first Orion crew capsule is rapidly taking shape as assembly work to construct the skeletal framework of the first pathfinder Orion capsule – the Ground Test Article – or GTA, is nearing completion. The Lockheed Martin team building Orion is just one weld away from completing the framework of an Orion cabin at [...]
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25 May 2010
The Story Behind SOFIA, NASA's Flying Observatory
From the Cornell University Chronicle, written by Lauren Gold: The SOFIA project has been in the making for more than 13 years — but the airplane has an even longer history. Originally owned by Pan Am, the 747SP (Special Performance) was named the Clipper Lindbergh and christened by Anne Morrow Lindbergh in 1977 on the 50th [...]
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